Brandon Rogers (Helluva Boss)

<v Speaker 1>How you doing out there? It's me Tigger.
<v Speaker 2>I am Duc Wayne Duck.
<v Speaker 1>It's me Bunkers keep bobcat All right, y'all?
<v Speaker 2>Did it great?
<v Speaker 1>Your favorite firefly you desire? Hold no old knock guy.
<v Speaker 1>My name is Jim Cummings and welcome to tuned In.
<v Speaker 3>Welcome back everybody to another episode of Tuned In with
<v Speaker 3>Jim Commings. Today we have Brandon Rogers joining us. Thank
<v Speaker 3>you so much for joining us.
<v Speaker 2>My pleasure to be Thank you for having me inside
<v Speaker 2>of your building.
<v Speaker 3>Oh my gosh, of course, of course, how are you
<v Speaker 3>doing today?
<v Speaker 2>I'm doing great well. I came here for the air
<v Speaker 2>conditioning because he is oh stee. I was just telling
<v Speaker 2>you off Off Mike that my family is totally head
<v Speaker 2>over heels that I'm even here with you today.
<v Speaker 1>Oh that's great.
<v Speaker 2>The fact that our voice is that there's nothing between
<v Speaker 2>our voices, that my the things that I've come out
<v Speaker 2>of my mouth and the beloved items that've come out
<v Speaker 2>of your there's no glass between these.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, well we'll we'll be a tripping the light
<v Speaker 1>fantastic here or whatever that expression is. Well, thanks for being.
<v Speaker 2>Here, Thank yous for having me.
<v Speaker 1>It is my honor to hey, thank you, thank you,
<v Speaker 1>because we've been aware of each other from being on
<v Speaker 1>the road. So yeah, and I think that's it's like
<v Speaker 1>being in rock and roll these days. You know, Will
<v Speaker 1>I'm playing Cleveland, Yeah next week, you know. And it's
<v Speaker 1>kind of cool.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you're kind of like my carnival family. I like
<v Speaker 2>to call it because I only ever there's a large
<v Speaker 2>group of people with cons that you.
<v Speaker 1>I'll give you some background music.
<v Speaker 2>I was like, that is a weird berd, but yeah,
<v Speaker 2>it's it's it's crazy because I only there's a large
<v Speaker 2>group of people that I only associate with seeing only
<v Speaker 2>out of town, so you see only out of town
<v Speaker 2>face here at home. Yeah, it is kind of it's comforting.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, what the heck. Oh I'm glad. I'm glad. Comforting
<v Speaker 1>is the word you used. It's like I want to
<v Speaker 1>hold up a crucifixion.
<v Speaker 2>Very cool. My skin isn't so. I think we're I
<v Speaker 2>think we're good.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah that's good. Well, speaking of your skin burning, Yes,
<v Speaker 1>you've got a couple of interesting animated projects out there,
<v Speaker 1>Ladies and gentlemen.
<v Speaker 2>Where's the segueing?
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, well yeah, where could that possibly be added? Well?
<v Speaker 2>Uh, yeah, I play quite a devilish little guy. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>it's a hell based show, a hell of a boss.
<v Speaker 2>And then it's sister show has been Hotel, and I'm
<v Speaker 2>lucky enough to be in both of them.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's tearing it up in both of them. Oh,
<v Speaker 1>thank you, thank eating the world up in both of them. Well,
<v Speaker 1>I'm good for you.
<v Speaker 2>That is a massive compliment coming from you, because I
<v Speaker 2>don't have I'm a very new voice actor and so,
<v Speaker 2>and it took me a long time to get over.
<v Speaker 2>I'm still sort of getting over if I if I
<v Speaker 2>had any imposter syndrome walking through the door, it's gone
<v Speaker 2>now after you said that.
<v Speaker 1>Oh well good, No, I think you're I think you're there.
<v Speaker 1>You're going to be part of the furniture.
<v Speaker 2>Oh my god, I would love to. I hope I'm
<v Speaker 2>a stool right up.
<v Speaker 1>I left my sticks in the car, damn it.
<v Speaker 2>I uh yeah, I was going down your roster. I
<v Speaker 2>did not realize last night. I was just watching clips
<v Speaker 2>from your movies, and I did not realize how you
<v Speaker 2>joke like, oh, I'm the voice you grew up with,
<v Speaker 2>But I didn't realize just how much of my childhood
<v Speaker 2>you were.
<v Speaker 1>How sick of me you were. How'm tired of hearing them?
<v Speaker 1>But you were, Oh my god.
<v Speaker 2>You made the cheshure cat so soothing to watch.
<v Speaker 1>That's you, well only recently. The one from the forties
<v Speaker 1>was somebody else.
<v Speaker 2>No, but I but but your voice is and I
<v Speaker 2>know the one. I know. I know the difference because
<v Speaker 2>if he was here now I'm pretty sure he's dead.
<v Speaker 2>Is yeah, yeah, rest yeah, that would that would be
<v Speaker 2>you know, yeah. But but it's it's I can hear
<v Speaker 2>like I can hear notes of that cheshure cat, but
<v Speaker 2>I can also hear just talking to you, notes of who,
<v Speaker 2>and I could hear notes of who's the big one
<v Speaker 2>with the big genre where.
<v Speaker 1>There you go, buddy, you must be a friend of
<v Speaker 1>the goofy. That's Pete, Pete, Pete.
<v Speaker 2>It's like, I can, that's good, subtly hear all. And
<v Speaker 2>maybe it's just because we're in person, you've you've got
<v Speaker 2>a really good ear, but well, it's it's, it's there.
<v Speaker 2>It's like a little sp if I really listen. It's
<v Speaker 2>the same with like Richard Horbitz, if you can kind
<v Speaker 2>of hear little fractions of them just in a speaking
<v Speaker 2>with all the characters, and it is cool because I
<v Speaker 2>know so many of your characters and to kind of
<v Speaker 2>hear them all summed up in a normal voice. Oh,
<v Speaker 2>it is a trip right next to me.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well thanks. I you know, I've always said I've
<v Speaker 1>had kind of a mid range voice, so it's not
<v Speaker 1>too big a journey to go higher or lower because
<v Speaker 1>I'm kind of right in the middle. That's what I've
<v Speaker 1>always thought about it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well it's it's I guess it is right in
<v Speaker 2>the Yeah, just mid range. It's but I mean that
<v Speaker 2>that's why you would probably have such a wide cavalcade
<v Speaker 2>of rolls.
<v Speaker 1>Something like that, plus a lot of inner turmoil.
<v Speaker 2>In turnoil really adds to the spice. It does. It does.
<v Speaker 1>And speaking of Richard Horbit's one of my favorite things.
<v Speaker 1>When I've uh first met him. One of the craziest things.
<v Speaker 1>You said, well, I know you've heard me, but you
<v Speaker 1>always thought I was a woman, and I, well, I
<v Speaker 1>don't know. Oh, come on, yes you did. And I said,
<v Speaker 1>all right, all right, you do sound like my aunt Grace.
<v Speaker 1>All right, are you happy? Grace?
<v Speaker 2>Oh my gosho ga Grace with the Richard Horowitz voice.
<v Speaker 1>Oh gosh da Well.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, he you know, it really did help getting and
<v Speaker 2>you know, going into this because Blitz is a main character,
<v Speaker 2>he's the lead of a show, and he's my first
<v Speaker 2>ever voice kid. It was very The creator of the
<v Speaker 2>show specifically wanted, I guess my tone for this particular protagonist.
<v Speaker 2>So she was very familiar with who I was on
<v Speaker 2>the internet, and she said, okay, that so sure, and
<v Speaker 2>we I don't know if any of us really knew
<v Speaker 2>the show was going to take off. She just wanted
<v Speaker 2>me to be the center voice of this pilot that
<v Speaker 2>I guess she was going to pitch or was just
<v Speaker 2>supposed to be a proof of concept of a different show,
<v Speaker 2>and it took off in all of a sudden, I
<v Speaker 2>found myself in like a union production with co stars
<v Speaker 2>like Richard Horwitz and Erica Linbeck and people that are
<v Speaker 2>very successful in this industry, and so to be among
<v Speaker 2>them as the as the lead character. There were many,
<v Speaker 2>many months, if not years, where I had a very tense,
<v Speaker 2>like like imposters around my neck.
<v Speaker 3>Whole it was.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I didn't let it affect the performance, but no,
<v Speaker 2>I mean it affected just how I saw myself and
<v Speaker 2>how I saw my like how I existed in this
<v Speaker 2>world around me. That I was very you know, you
<v Speaker 2>better be you know, it's it's it's like almost like
<v Speaker 2>it's a lot of pressure to be grateful and to
<v Speaker 2>make sure you're doing the right thing with this role,
<v Speaker 2>that you're not squandering this role that other.
<v Speaker 1>You know.
<v Speaker 2>So after a while, you know, when I saw the show,
<v Speaker 2>once I saw it cut and animated, I really understood
<v Speaker 2>the character. I go, Okay, she's going for this, especially
<v Speaker 2>with how she animates him. I was getting more of
<v Speaker 2>the of the physicality of him and why she chose
<v Speaker 2>my voice. But then having Richard, who directs the vocal
<v Speaker 2>directs the show. He's just so selfless in the way
<v Speaker 2>that he works with people. He makes you, he like
<v Speaker 2>builds you up. It's a it's all positive reinforcement. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>And and to have someone like him, who I also
<v Speaker 2>you know, grew up watching on TV and show films,
<v Speaker 2>kind of be this reassuring voice behind the glass of
<v Speaker 2>like telling me what he liked about it. And also
<v Speaker 2>if he would let me improvise, if I improvised something,
<v Speaker 2>he would go, oh yeah, and then he would feed
<v Speaker 2>me back a version of my variant, like polishing that version.
<v Speaker 2>And so then I once I knew he trusted me
<v Speaker 2>with just inherently with the material, the performance, he trusted
<v Speaker 2>me with my improvit. It really made me kind of
<v Speaker 2>loosen up and kind of go, Okay, this is a
<v Speaker 2>safe space in here for me to explore this character.
<v Speaker 1>Oh well, you're just killing it.
<v Speaker 3>You're you're doing You did a fantastic job. I'm surprised
<v Speaker 3>that that was your first voice act.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's I put a lot of I really study
<v Speaker 2>those lines and rehearse them in the in the car.
<v Speaker 2>I remember saying, you know, even like my first song
<v Speaker 2>on the series, I would sing that for days. I
<v Speaker 2>was singing those lyrics over and over. It's because you
<v Speaker 2>don't want to, you know. It's of course it's your
<v Speaker 2>first the song, the first song, the first song, it's
<v Speaker 2>a duet that I have with Bryce Pinkham, who is
<v Speaker 2>a Broadway singer. So the pressures at all, I still
<v Speaker 2>can I can like get myself to that nervousness just
<v Speaker 2>thinking about it, like I get work. I remember my
<v Speaker 2>heart pounding in the car and I'm cranking up the
<v Speaker 2>volume because they sent me the demo track that which
<v Speaker 2>Sam Half. Sam Half who composes a lot of these songs.
<v Speaker 2>He's also a brilliant singer. So I'm hearing his demo
<v Speaker 2>track and singing along to it and trying to really
<v Speaker 2>get my my notes to match. And and also he
<v Speaker 2>writes very fast lyrics for me. He writes, it's almost
<v Speaker 2>like like eminem fast and so I I.
<v Speaker 1>Which, I think, no pressure that no.
<v Speaker 2>Pressure, it was it was. I remember it being a
<v Speaker 2>very rough first half of that session, just getting myself
<v Speaker 2>because I wasn't used to singing. I wasn't even used
<v Speaker 2>to voice acting still at the time. And so now
<v Speaker 2>I'm having a voice saying, you know, which is different
<v Speaker 2>and I have. I had a really bad habit, by
<v Speaker 2>the way, my whole the whole first season of the show,
<v Speaker 2>I would always go like this with oh wow in
<v Speaker 2>different directions, right, it's like sound of music, yeah, with
<v Speaker 2>the thing in her in her brazier or whatever. And
<v Speaker 2>so I was in the bush.
<v Speaker 1>I forget where it was.
<v Speaker 2>I forget where they put the mic. They stuffed it somewhere, okay,
<v Speaker 2>uh anyway, but yeah, so so it this. I've only
<v Speaker 2>had two roles at least that I could talk about
<v Speaker 2>voice acting, uh, that are out there and it so
<v Speaker 2>I can't wait to get to a point one day
<v Speaker 2>where I'm able to be you know, I see people
<v Speaker 2>like you and Tara and Gray at these conventions with
<v Speaker 2>like this whole roster of characters, and that is it
<v Speaker 2>is cool now seeing, Oh, I can work toward that,
<v Speaker 2>like I can I can have, you know, And that
<v Speaker 2>was never on the table for me before this role
<v Speaker 2>because I never considered myself of I never thought I
<v Speaker 2>would ever be a voice actor. And so now I
<v Speaker 2>get to see what that's like through the eyes of
<v Speaker 2>you know, Richard and everyone he's worked with for so long.
<v Speaker 2>I get to see what that road looks like, and
<v Speaker 2>it's it is much more lucrative and fun than the
<v Speaker 2>route of YouTube.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, I would think, Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>But you've been doing YouTube for a while, for a.
<v Speaker 2>Long time, since I was in high school. I remember
<v Speaker 2>I made my the YouTube account that I still upload
<v Speaker 2>videos on today. I made that in my high school library.
<v Speaker 3>Wow, and that was kid.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm thirty six at school year it was two
<v Speaker 2>thousand and six, so I was right when you started. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>it was about a year old. Technically they started in
<v Speaker 2>two thousand and five. But yeah, I remember thinking, because
<v Speaker 2>at the time I would make YouTube, I would make
<v Speaker 2>videos on like vhs you know, cam quarders, and we
<v Speaker 2>would put once a week we would screen them in
<v Speaker 2>a classroom with a teacher would let us gather in
<v Speaker 2>a classroom at lunch and we would just spend the hour,
<v Speaker 2>you know, watching whatever it was we made. And there
<v Speaker 2>was a real satisfaction to like, whatever you put on
<v Speaker 2>camera can go in front of people, like it goes
<v Speaker 2>on the screen. Whatever we capture in this little tiny device.
<v Speaker 2>And we were making movies in like a field somewhere,
<v Speaker 2>like we were on another planet. It was just like
<v Speaker 2>a way to be a like a to hang out
<v Speaker 2>with your friends. It was a really satisfying way to
<v Speaker 2>hang with people, and b it was really cathartic to
<v Speaker 2>sort of express yourself and play different characters and then
<v Speaker 2>put them in front knowing that every Friday at lunch
<v Speaker 2>we were all going to watch this.
<v Speaker 1>You can do it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And we had to edit in the camera at
<v Speaker 2>the time, so if you messed up to take, you'd
<v Speaker 2>rewind film that again. So you were editing it as
<v Speaker 2>we shot.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. I did that with my home movies, so I
<v Speaker 1>understand completely.
<v Speaker 2>It's it's uh And there was kind of a fun
<v Speaker 2>like satisfaction to that because you knew you were working
<v Speaker 2>with the final cut whatever was in there, was like
<v Speaker 2>that's what they're going to see. Yeah, So I liked that.
<v Speaker 2>And then so anyway, so YouTube, yeah, comes out two
<v Speaker 2>thousand and five, and I'm like, there's a way to
<v Speaker 2>share this with anyone in the world, like everyone in
<v Speaker 2>the world, everyone in the world. I mean it, I
<v Speaker 2>felt like it was blowing my mind more than other people.
<v Speaker 2>And I remember looking around going like, why is no
<v Speaker 2>one really everyone was still excited about my Space more
<v Speaker 2>than YouTube, And I was like, why is no one
<v Speaker 2>getting the fact that we can upload videos? And I
<v Speaker 2>mean granted very low resolution, and I think you weren't
<v Speaker 2>allowed to upload anything more than ten minutes, which I
<v Speaker 2>mean that's still a good chunk of time, but it
<v Speaker 2>was very restricted still like we would we would, you know.
<v Speaker 1>It was yeah, you get out there and do something
<v Speaker 1>in ten minutes, that's for sure. Yeah, And that's we
<v Speaker 1>were That was a comedy acts don't go that long.
<v Speaker 2>Right, right, right exactly, So it was still you know,
<v Speaker 2>it was still a lot of possibilities with a ten minute,
<v Speaker 2>low resolution video, and and so yeah, that's how it
<v Speaker 2>was a no brainer. As soon as YouTube came out.
<v Speaker 2>I just immediately, like I started making videos for that
<v Speaker 2>made it for you. Yeah, I took in high school,
<v Speaker 2>they offered an elective that year, is my senior year
<v Speaker 2>in video editing was an elective and they taught us
<v Speaker 2>on like the newest technology. So at the time, it
<v Speaker 2>was like iMovie was like the cutting edge, like it
<v Speaker 2>was a very new software, and so they taught us
<v Speaker 2>on that, and I remember were falling in love with
<v Speaker 2>editing because I'd never learned to edit before, and I
<v Speaker 2>remember thinking, this is so easy. And then you just
<v Speaker 2>you just plug the camera into the computer. The footage
<v Speaker 2>is on the computer. You could just cut and splice,
<v Speaker 2>and granted, back then you had import in real time,
<v Speaker 2>so whatever you shot, if it was an hour, it
<v Speaker 2>would take an hour to import. Oh wow, so that
<v Speaker 2>was kind of a pain in the ass, but like
<v Speaker 2>there were but at least you didn't have to edit
<v Speaker 2>it in the camera. And so anyway, this is a
<v Speaker 2>very roundabout way of saying that, like that's that's ultimately
<v Speaker 2>how I started doing YouTube was I just took that
<v Speaker 2>editing class, made that YouTube account senior year, and then
<v Speaker 2>and then everything else in my life became a planet
<v Speaker 2>orbiting around that that was sort of the pinnacle of
<v Speaker 2>even like my job, my school, everything was second priority
<v Speaker 2>to just me expressing myself in the Internet and I
<v Speaker 2>and at the time that was not a safe bet
<v Speaker 2>because there was no future in video streaming, you know,
<v Speaker 2>it was it was seen as like a hobby site. Still,
<v Speaker 2>that's true, and so it was the term YouTuber only
<v Speaker 2>recently and with younger generations as a form of respect
<v Speaker 2>that it didn't have for such a long time. Sure,
<v Speaker 2>but yeah, so it wasn't like I felt like I
<v Speaker 2>was investing my time wisely. And it's one of those
<v Speaker 2>examples of like that there's an image of like a
<v Speaker 2>guy picking an axe, you know, through a tunnel in
<v Speaker 2>the ground and there's like a gym five feet away
<v Speaker 2>and he gives up and goes back, and it's sort
<v Speaker 2>of an example of like I'm glad I didn't put
<v Speaker 2>down the pick axe, you know. Yeah, And and so yeah,
<v Speaker 2>it wasn't until you know, I moved to LA and
<v Speaker 2>had many jobs of just customer service or just very
<v Speaker 2>entry level positions that I could and I was constantly
<v Speaker 2>getting fired because I was always focusing on my on
<v Speaker 2>my films in my series.
<v Speaker 1>Oh that's really familiar. Do you have something similarly now? No, Yeah, well,
<v Speaker 1>in New Orleans when I moved there, when I was
<v Speaker 1>a kid, I say, a kid, I was just turned nineteen.
<v Speaker 1>But I wanted to be a band, being a band,
<v Speaker 1>being a singer. But yeah, blah blah blah, and I
<v Speaker 1>would I would have, you know, I changed what was it? Firestone?
<v Speaker 1>I think I might have Firestone. I fixed flat tires
<v Speaker 1>for a while. Oh but we have a gig where
<v Speaker 1>oh and oh so I have to we can't go.
<v Speaker 1>I can't commend Friday.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so.
<v Speaker 1>All of a sudden Monday I had to get a
<v Speaker 1>new job, and so because and then finally the band
<v Speaker 1>was working enough that I didn't have have a didn't
<v Speaker 1>have a need for the job, so that worked out,
<v Speaker 1>you know, so I understand.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's it's not a lot of people, do you know,
<v Speaker 2>especially back then, it was no one under you know, yea.
<v Speaker 2>Even my own friends were like, all right, have fun editing.
<v Speaker 2>I'm going to go study. Like it did feel like
<v Speaker 2>I would.
<v Speaker 1>Do something that I can actually use in the world.
<v Speaker 2>And YouTube wasn't really tangible. It wasn't saying it wasn't
<v Speaker 2>it wasn't something that you could like that. Yeah, well, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I know it's it's the whole world's changed, and I
<v Speaker 2>if only I knew it was going to change in
<v Speaker 2>my favor, I probably would have done it even more aggressively.
<v Speaker 2>But no, I'm happy the way that it panned out.
<v Speaker 2>You know, and a lot of people get famous for
<v Speaker 2>doing you know, once the internet became, you know, sort
<v Speaker 2>of this shouting contest anyone could you know? It was
<v Speaker 2>just I want to do anything to get famous, and
<v Speaker 2>sometimes people you know, haven't forbid you get popular for
<v Speaker 2>something you don't enjoy doing. For again, Mack, that you did.
<v Speaker 2>So I was always there was a long time where
<v Speaker 2>I was kind of trying. I was trying to do
<v Speaker 2>vlogging where you just you know, map out your whole
<v Speaker 2>life for the whole world to see, or trying to
<v Speaker 2>do like prank videos. I was trying to do oh googging. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>And I'm just so glad that ultimately what really stuck,
<v Speaker 2>what the fans really responded to the most, was what
<v Speaker 2>I love doing the most, and that's you know, storytelling.
<v Speaker 2>That's creating these characters and telling stories through these these
<v Speaker 2>characters that I, you know, wrote for myself to play
<v Speaker 2>and it's yeah, it's anyway, it's a very satisfying line
<v Speaker 2>of work. But I did not think it was going
<v Speaker 2>to be possible.
<v Speaker 1>Well, I think, you know, I've got my kids, my nieces, nephews, whatever,
<v Speaker 1>you know, and I I always tell them, you know, well,
<v Speaker 1>if you want to be an attorney, you want to
<v Speaker 1>be a doctor, that's great, but you know, make sure
<v Speaker 1>you do something that you would do all day long
<v Speaker 1>for free and do it so damn well that somebody
<v Speaker 1>will pay you. And that to me is the ultimate
<v Speaker 1>not revenge, but that's the ultimate career, you know. I mean,
<v Speaker 1>if you if you would do it all day long
<v Speaker 1>for free and you do it so well, somebody pays you,
<v Speaker 1>right right, ding ding ding. That's that's the brass ring.
<v Speaker 2>It's and I agree, I and it if I you know,
<v Speaker 2>twenty years ago, I would have said that's impossible, or like,
<v Speaker 2>oh that sounds nice, but it really is.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean, and also, anology has been your friend.
<v Speaker 2>Chet technology has been right there on my side. But
<v Speaker 2>I've also I've been around now long enough since that
<v Speaker 2>point of view that I had to see how everyone
<v Speaker 2>else my age has done. And it really if there's
<v Speaker 2>one thing I've learned. It's just you're if you're persistent,
<v Speaker 2>you're good at something, Eventually someone's going to pay you
<v Speaker 2>for it. I have all of my friends who just
<v Speaker 2>stuck with it because they liked it are now doing
<v Speaker 2>it very successfully now, you know. And I'm very proud
<v Speaker 2>that a lot of people I went to college with
<v Speaker 2>that I grew up with, you know, moved to la
<v Speaker 2>eventually and just stuck with their dreams. And I think
<v Speaker 2>what united us in high school and college was that
<v Speaker 2>we were so obsessed with what we love and those
<v Speaker 2>same people are here in l A doing it for
<v Speaker 2>like Netflix and Amazon, and yeah, it's like so so anyway, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I do believe that if you are, like you said,
<v Speaker 2>if you are good at something you know, and you
<v Speaker 2>just do it long enough, eventually you know someone's going
<v Speaker 2>to pay you for it. And I just think that persistence,
<v Speaker 2>like I said, that pickaxe thing, it's just you never
<v Speaker 2>know when it's going to happen, but eventually it does.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, it does.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, I never thought I'd be sitting here next
<v Speaker 2>to you on you know, on the show say, I mean,
<v Speaker 2>I think about that, like with any of my cast
<v Speaker 2>with the hell of you know, Richard Horowitz. It's just
<v Speaker 2>so surreal, Yeah, that I'm even meeting you people, because
<v Speaker 2>for so long, y'all were mythical creatures in my mind.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there was like, oh they existed a different Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I understand that because you know, I worked with Don Messick,
<v Speaker 1>who was the king of Hannibar Era, and just any
<v Speaker 1>number of people, you know, June for A, Rocky and
<v Speaker 1>Bullwinkle and all these people, and they were still around
<v Speaker 1>when I first started my career, and I just thought
<v Speaker 1>it was like, wait a minute, this is this is crazy,
<v Speaker 1>you know because a year or two before I was
<v Speaker 1>working in a steel mill. So you know, this is okay,
<v Speaker 1>this is better. I'm gonna do this now. So I'm
<v Speaker 1>with you.
<v Speaker 2>Oh wow, that is that.
<v Speaker 1>I'm with you.
<v Speaker 2>That's that's and I like that we I just have
<v Speaker 2>to say that this is us getting to know each
<v Speaker 2>other for real. I've I see you all the time
<v Speaker 2>at conventions, but it's nothing more than just like the
<v Speaker 2>person I'm like getting coffee next to it, oh you know,
<v Speaker 2>like or at the table that I watched, and so
<v Speaker 2>it is it is kind of cool to get to
<v Speaker 2>know you just right here. Actually on the podcast, I've
<v Speaker 2>I I have to ask, do you I always wondered
<v Speaker 2>about Disney voice actors, especially the really prompt, like like
<v Speaker 2>very well known Disney voice actors. Is it what is
<v Speaker 2>it a day at Disneyland like for you?
<v Speaker 1>And how often do you go Disneyland Disney or I
<v Speaker 1>guess it quite nice, it's very nice. Yeah, well, Chris
<v Speaker 1>will tell you. You know, we've been any number of
<v Speaker 1>times together with family events. And it's interesting because some
<v Speaker 1>people you can tell that. I think I'm pretty sure
<v Speaker 1>there is a rule at Disney if you work at Disney,
<v Speaker 1>uh and you recognize I mean, just pick somebody like uh,
<v Speaker 1>I don't know, George Clooney, somebody not not me, but
<v Speaker 1>you know, and you're not allowed to acknowledge them. I'm
<v Speaker 1>pretty sure. Yeah, it's like hi, uh, step right this way,
<v Speaker 1>you know, and you can because you can see I
<v Speaker 1>have I have been able to see that people when
<v Speaker 1>you're literally when you're getting on a ride, and of
<v Speaker 1>course they'll give me a guide to to bring me.
<v Speaker 1>They're very gracious in that regard that so you don't
<v Speaker 1>have to wait mobile lines right right right and we'll
<v Speaker 1>be walking by the feet but working at the radag on.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, I imagine, you know, and and I just.
<v Speaker 1>Give him a little poo or a little tigger. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>stay sweetest, honey, keep one bounting, you know something. And they.
<v Speaker 2>Step this way.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, yeah, so it's cool. They have to be cool.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, they have all but but you can't I notice
<v Speaker 2>they can't hide that in the face. That's that's it's
<v Speaker 2>just so crazy. I'm sure you get this all the time,
<v Speaker 2>but just hearing that voice, such a voice I've heard
<v Speaker 2>so many times in person, it's.
<v Speaker 1>That is you were sick of me and you didn't
<v Speaker 1>even know it. Sorry, keep hitting your TV.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, that's that's so So is that so in
<v Speaker 2>the right? Is that that's your voice?
<v Speaker 1>And oh yeah, so.
<v Speaker 2>What I mean your first time going on that right?
<v Speaker 2>You know? Was that actually was that your first time
<v Speaker 2>having your voice in a Disney ride?
<v Speaker 1>Uh no, No, there was one prior to that. In fact,
<v Speaker 1>we were talking about it earlier. There was what was
<v Speaker 1>it they were taking one away. There was I think
<v Speaker 1>it was Pooh's log ride or Poo's something, and they
<v Speaker 1>took it away, but they replaced it with a store
<v Speaker 1>and then part of it and then they cut out anyway.
<v Speaker 1>It was raised berets. What the hell? Uh yeah, Ray
<v Speaker 1>from the Fireflying Princess and the Frog what he has
<v Speaker 1>to do with hats? It just rhymes, yeah, I think
<v Speaker 1>it's And then the Princess and the Frog Ride was
<v Speaker 1>right next door, so I was like, okay, well they
<v Speaker 1>the Lord take it away and Lord giveth and then
<v Speaker 1>then next thing you're on the Princess and the Frog Ride.
<v Speaker 1>Uh So that was fun.
<v Speaker 2>Poo's log I did not if there's any way to
<v Speaker 2>make Pooh's name sound dirty or it's calling it Poo's
<v Speaker 2>log ride.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's oh.
<v Speaker 2>Wow, that's it was.
<v Speaker 1>I could be wrong about the.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I have an answer to that question as well. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>going to Disneyland with Jim Ruins Disneyland, wow, because because
<v Speaker 3>you tell they give you the tour guide, they give
<v Speaker 3>you the tour guide. They treat you, you know, like
<v Speaker 3>like royalty, like you are, and then when you go
<v Speaker 3>by yourself, you know, it's like I'm standing in line.
<v Speaker 3>Oh it ruins it that way. You know, It's like
<v Speaker 3>it's such a phenomenal treatment that like just going there
<v Speaker 3>ordinarily is just not even the same, you know, and
<v Speaker 3>like oh yeah, they take us up into you know,
<v Speaker 3>like Club thirty three, you know, like all the you
<v Speaker 3>know for.
<v Speaker 2>Those in Actually we had uh one of them gave us.
<v Speaker 2>We had something for Hell of a Boss. That was
<v Speaker 2>the tour. It was the it was the guy thing.
<v Speaker 2>But I was only able to stay for a few hours.
<v Speaker 2>But I needed to see what this was. And I
<v Speaker 2>think for anyone who doesn't know, it's basically someone and
<v Speaker 2>correct me if I'm wrong. They just they take you
<v Speaker 2>to the front of the line of each.
<v Speaker 3>Day, right, and you can right as many times you
<v Speaker 3>can literally sit there on Space Mountain and be like
<v Speaker 3>wave at the people in line and just keep riding,
<v Speaker 3>just keep riding, keep riding.
<v Speaker 2>So I didn't know that all. I was just there
<v Speaker 2>for a couple hours, so I just got a We
<v Speaker 2>saw Club thirty three, which was that was really cool
<v Speaker 2>that they're only gifts and I and I asked if
<v Speaker 2>we could take the elevator, just because I knew I
<v Speaker 2>would never take this elevator again. Probably, Yes, that's right.
<v Speaker 1>It's a pretty cool elevator.
<v Speaker 2>Oh it's beautiful. And I thought it would take me
<v Speaker 2>out of the ceiling like in Willy Wonka. Yeah, right,
<v Speaker 2>grant me a wish, But no, it was Yeah, and
<v Speaker 2>I wish you know, it sucks. I don't even remember
<v Speaker 2>where I had to go. I don't even remember where
<v Speaker 2>I had to be that day, and so I'm just like,
<v Speaker 2>I cut my day in half for something I can't remember.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, it was.
<v Speaker 1>It was.
<v Speaker 2>It was quite an experience and I didn't know that existed.
<v Speaker 2>I don't go to Disneyland very often, but I am
<v Speaker 2>at Yeah, if I my next time, I think that
<v Speaker 2>was my last time there actually, So now if I
<v Speaker 2>go back, I'm probably it'll probably be ruined for me.
<v Speaker 1>Well that's what we're here for.
<v Speaker 2>Wow. So so okay, So going on, I have to ask
<v Speaker 2>the Pooh Ride whatever. I know it's on the Hunting
<v Speaker 2>whatever it is, Now, what was it? What was that like?
<v Speaker 2>Because your voice is all over that thing.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, well it's interesting because you know, you're kind of
<v Speaker 1>you're trying to remember, Oh yeah, I remember doing that,
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, I remember, oh yeah, And it's very very
<v Speaker 1>well done. You know, all their animatronics are and it's
<v Speaker 1>little vignettes. You know, you go around and you're slurping
<v Speaker 1>around and you're hoping that it doesn't stop, you know,
<v Speaker 1>for repairs in the middle, and it's just a kick.
<v Speaker 1>I've gotten used to it. Yeah, I've had a few.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, let's I think the first thing that I
<v Speaker 1>voiced for Disney was a Dark Wing Duck stage show,
<v Speaker 1>Dark Wing Duck and launch Pad, and I was dark
<v Speaker 1>Wing Duck and there was oh no, it was Disney Afternoon.
<v Speaker 1>That's what it was, back when Disney Afternoon was a big,
<v Speaker 1>big thing a long time ago, late eighties maybe something.
<v Speaker 1>And uh and I was in all of the skits.
<v Speaker 1>At one it was fat Cat, one was Monterey Jack,
<v Speaker 1>one was Pooh and Tigger, and one was dark Wing.
<v Speaker 1>And I think that was it. But I just remember thinking,
<v Speaker 1>this is this is exactly what I wanted to do
<v Speaker 1>when I was five, and it was so cool. I just,
<v Speaker 1>you know, sounds like I'm bragging. I'm really not. I
<v Speaker 1>was kind of flabbergasted.
<v Speaker 2>That was you know, was it was it hearing your
<v Speaker 2>voice specifically in that medium that well.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And and then you look around and everybody's going yeah, oh.
<v Speaker 2>When you see the react, you know.
<v Speaker 1>And that that's that's very gratifying.
<v Speaker 2>It's different when you see people react to it. The
<v Speaker 2>one downside of the Internet, of being on the Internet
<v Speaker 2>is that you don't get a see, because I love
<v Speaker 2>doing stand up as well, only only for the energy
<v Speaker 2>that's right there. For in fact, I prefer doing stand
<v Speaker 2>up in a smaller room because the people's energy reverbates
<v Speaker 2>back to you somehow. Yeah, sure, intimate thing and so yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I can. I can relate to seeing people's reactions. And
<v Speaker 2>then suddenly you're something about being in front of a
<v Speaker 2>room of thirty people feels more meaningful than three hundred
<v Speaker 2>comments on something. Yeah, it's true. Yeah, and so.
<v Speaker 1>Well, it's immediate and it's genuine.
<v Speaker 2>It's genuine. Yeah, it's knee jerk, knee jerk reactions. But
<v Speaker 2>I also have to say, outside of Disney, you I believe,
<v Speaker 2>and Craig me if I'm wrong. You voiced my favorite
<v Speaker 2>version of Robotic, which was the more sinister one.
<v Speaker 1>That's true.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, be a friend of Sniveley's Snibley. Yeah, Oh my gosh,
<v Speaker 2>I mean there was. I had the comics that went
<v Speaker 2>with that specific series. I was the massive I was
<v Speaker 2>drawing pictures of Robotic and like all of his when
<v Speaker 2>I was bored in school, like that was such a
<v Speaker 2>like escape from my brain. And so to see that
<v Speaker 2>you also had that on your Rothstars. Yeah, I was well,
<v Speaker 2>I was.
<v Speaker 1>They did one batch of the in Canada, like I
<v Speaker 1>don't know, sixty episodes, and I think we only did
<v Speaker 1>like two dozen down here when I did it. But
<v Speaker 1>I've had people tell me that mine was scary and
<v Speaker 1>the other one was cartoony. The other car, Yeah, the
<v Speaker 1>one I guess they did it, and I think it
<v Speaker 1>was Jalil White in Canada. I think it was Jilliel
<v Speaker 1>White and he because he was my he was my
<v Speaker 1>sonic Jilil White. He was, you know, and I remember,
<v Speaker 1>and there was and I and I did now that
<v Speaker 1>i'm thinking of it. One thing that used to get
<v Speaker 1>everybody every time cats to see, especially a great young
<v Speaker 1>actress lady voice, lady. I would always do, wait a minute,
<v Speaker 1>you have a jug in the dungeon. That's good, And
<v Speaker 1>it was. And it was that because you could see
<v Speaker 1>that you just I just wanted to make it seem
<v Speaker 1>like he was what could I could do a lot
<v Speaker 1>with the dungeon. The possibilities are coming over, Yes, yes,
<v Speaker 1>And then I went back to Winnie the Poo and
<v Speaker 1>I even doubt.
<v Speaker 2>And it is such a departure from from a lot
<v Speaker 2>of the versions of Robotic because there are a lot of
<v Speaker 2>them are mostly goofy.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and so this is one that was genuinely scary.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah yeah, I thought it would be fun.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, no, that was good. Was that your was that?
<v Speaker 2>Did you come up with that?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? Yeah, I don't think. I don't. I don't think
<v Speaker 1>there was one before. I don't think there was a
<v Speaker 1>cartoon or oh so he didn't have before that. I don't.
<v Speaker 1>I don't. I don't think so. I could be wrong.
<v Speaker 3>It was a game, right, it was a game. I'm
<v Speaker 3>not sure which one came first though.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's true.
<v Speaker 3>I'm not sure anyway, I'm sure.
<v Speaker 1>Comments. Please come on, come on outside here, we're floundering. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Thanks, So, I uh, I have to I have to add.
<v Speaker 2>What is one of the most common things people have
<v Speaker 2>you say as winning the when they when they request
<v Speaker 2>your Winnie the Pooh Boys.
<v Speaker 1>Well, for some reason, it's oh bother And that's not much,
<v Speaker 1>you know, oh bother? Oh that's perfect. You sound just
<v Speaker 1>like him, just like him. That that's my favorite. You
<v Speaker 1>sound just like him, like it's a separate little bear
<v Speaker 1>on your TV or wherever. But yeah, that that's definitely it.
<v Speaker 2>What oh bother? Is that supposed to be his equivalent
<v Speaker 2>of oh, some four letter word.
<v Speaker 1>I probably yeah, because literature does he use it like.
<v Speaker 2>It's like a dang it.
<v Speaker 3>It's like a British thing though people like really say that,
<v Speaker 3>like well, at least they used to bananas British and
<v Speaker 3>she used to. She used to always be like, oh, bother,
<v Speaker 3>you know.
<v Speaker 1>Like.
<v Speaker 2>Weird American.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, bother bugger you know like oh bugger, yeah, say
<v Speaker 3>that as.
<v Speaker 1>Well, something like that. It means things aren't going perfectly.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, we don't a lot if Americans have such a
<v Speaker 2>middle tary. It's either like oh, yeah, you know, we
<v Speaker 2>need to know bother.
<v Speaker 3>Maybe we have less violence. Yeah, what will people ask
<v Speaker 3>you to say? Mostly as blitz, sorry I fucked your husband?
<v Speaker 2>That one is that is a that'll probably the most
<v Speaker 2>common one. And I like writing when I said, it's
<v Speaker 2>the most common thing for me to sign too. And
<v Speaker 2>when I sign it, if there is a husband and
<v Speaker 2>I'm writing it for the wife, I look at the
<v Speaker 2>husband many cringes and cringes I know, I I yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I don't know people.
<v Speaker 1>People.
<v Speaker 2>I get a lot of people in my line who
<v Speaker 2>I think get a kick out of how adult the
<v Speaker 2>show is and they're not even they're not like younger
<v Speaker 2>people either, the people who clearly like live a life
<v Speaker 2>where they don't they aren't exactly permitted to exude that
<v Speaker 2>kind of language or that, and so they they when
<v Speaker 2>they get to see me, it's almost like a little
<v Speaker 2>escape where if they're teaching fifth grade, you're right, And
<v Speaker 2>a lot of them aren't teachers that teach kids, and
<v Speaker 2>they go like, so many of my students know who
<v Speaker 2>you are. They shouldn't anyway, please say sorry, but anyway, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>it's it's all walks of life come up, and I
<v Speaker 2>mean it's all very alternative, you know, it's it's yes,
<v Speaker 2>it is. My line looks like you can't tell if
<v Speaker 2>they're lending up for me or the grand opening of
<v Speaker 2>a hot.
<v Speaker 1>Topic, and it's very hot.
<v Speaker 2>It's a very alternative crowd, which I like because I
<v Speaker 2>know when I was before I did YouTube, I fit
<v Speaker 2>right in with that crowd. I still do like I
<v Speaker 2>definitely it's nice to feel like the people I make
<v Speaker 2>stuff for are me. It's not that I'm making stuff
<v Speaker 2>for like some other Oh, it's for I would never
<v Speaker 2>watch my No, It's like I make what I like,
<v Speaker 2>and I think that people have very similar sensibilities and
<v Speaker 2>so it's it's nice to see, like you said, in person,
<v Speaker 2>when they're there. It's so gratifying. And I have a
<v Speaker 2>hard time moving my line along because I very much
<v Speaker 2>connect with with a lot of the people and it's
<v Speaker 2>hard to Okay, thank you know, it's it's really you.
<v Speaker 2>You do want to take your time with a lot
<v Speaker 2>of these people that understand you.
<v Speaker 3>And you write for the show as well.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah for both? Yeah for uh well I write for
<v Speaker 2>no just for for Heleva but uh but uh a lot.
<v Speaker 2>So sorry, I'm like moving you around. The guy who
<v Speaker 2>helps me write my videos also writes for has been
<v Speaker 2>in Helva Okay, so has been has very similar flavors
<v Speaker 2>to my my videos because the person who helps me
<v Speaker 2>write them right, so so kind of there is a
<v Speaker 2>similarity there with tone. But yeah, it has been in
<v Speaker 2>hell Ofva. Are both? I mean, I don't know Viv
<v Speaker 2>has such a specific career or history because I don't
<v Speaker 2>know anyone else who just their first big thing was
<v Speaker 2>two big things, you know, and like just created both
<v Speaker 2>shows and with such a specific flavor to it, you know.
<v Speaker 2>I I'm very proud of her. I don't even know
<v Speaker 2>how I got on this tangible was the oh yeah, yeah, no,
<v Speaker 2>I I love And the reason why I feel like
<v Speaker 2>I connect with the fans is because, you know, the
<v Speaker 2>writing is I am very picky with the writing and
<v Speaker 2>my stuff, and I think that when people relate to that,
<v Speaker 2>they're relating to a very genuine part of my soul.
<v Speaker 2>You know, the conflicts that the characters go through, and
<v Speaker 2>the different morals that the that the you know, the
<v Speaker 2>out you know, what the lessons learned from each film
<v Speaker 2>I do or series I make. It's all from here
<v Speaker 2>and it's stuff that that's close to my life. And
<v Speaker 2>so when people relate to that and they under you know,
<v Speaker 2>it's very genuine, it's genuine, and I feel like they
<v Speaker 2>get a large part of who I am, and even
<v Speaker 2>more so than a lot of my own family. You know,
<v Speaker 2>a lot of my family loves my work, but you know,
<v Speaker 2>they I am the only entertainer in my family. No
<v Speaker 2>one else works in entertainment. And so you say familiar, Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>We're good with truck drivers. Had a few de mill
<v Speaker 1>people in there, and yeah, yeah, one of them.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, So yeah, it's it's my family and I'm
<v Speaker 2>assuming probably sounds like yours too, are very passionate about practicality.
<v Speaker 2>They're very practical people, and and you know, yeah, we
<v Speaker 2>just I mean we would go to the movies occasionally,
<v Speaker 2>we would watch TV like Basic cable, but we were
<v Speaker 2>never like a we never nerded out a lot over stuff.
<v Speaker 2>And and uh and I I really, you know, getting older,
<v Speaker 2>I started to really appreciate the whole nerd aspect of
<v Speaker 2>because really what nerd means is just someone who loves
<v Speaker 2>something so passionately they need to label it as nerd.
<v Speaker 2>You know, It's like you're just so in love with something,
<v Speaker 2>and I just I'm really drawn to people who are
<v Speaker 2>so in love.
<v Speaker 1>With something, so am I I understand that completely.
<v Speaker 2>And so I so being in now I'm full fledged
<v Speaker 2>in con culture. I'm like like neck deep in nerds,
<v Speaker 2>and I'm and it's just there's there's a part of
<v Speaker 2>me that's like, damn, it took me thirty five years
<v Speaker 2>to get here, Like I finally feel like I'm at home.
<v Speaker 2>And it took me thirty five years to feel like
<v Speaker 2>I'm home. Yeah, but I do. I've never felt more
<v Speaker 2>at home in my entire life than the last year
<v Speaker 2>and a half. That's great, and largely because of the conventions.
<v Speaker 2>You know, to go to a city that you don't
<v Speaker 2>know anybody and to feel like you're loved by everyone.
<v Speaker 1>That's such a thousand people show up and all of
<v Speaker 1>a sudden, you know people.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, all of a sudden, you have friends, you feel
<v Speaker 2>loved any any like. It's almost like a like a
<v Speaker 2>cure all because people are loving something that you love.
<v Speaker 2>It's like people gathering to love your kid. It feels
<v Speaker 2>it's yeah, we're.
<v Speaker 1>All gathered around the same campfire.
<v Speaker 2>Right and and coming from the YouTube world, you know,
<v Speaker 2>I'm I go to I used to go to conventions
<v Speaker 2>like VIDCN and Playlist like conventions that were about clout
<v Speaker 2>more so than the work. So it's the people that
<v Speaker 2>line up to me there are more concerned with who
<v Speaker 2>you are as opposed to what you make. Oh I
<v Speaker 2>met this this YouTube, I met this creator, and that's
<v Speaker 2>that's great. I got the selfie. But at these conventions,
<v Speaker 2>people are asking me questions about my work, what I
<v Speaker 2>have coming up. They're picking prints of characters that that
<v Speaker 2>connect that they connected to.
<v Speaker 1>So it's not.
<v Speaker 2>About me, It's about what this thing that I helped
<v Speaker 2>make that we both connected with, and I just I
<v Speaker 2>didn't realize that there was such a difference in energy
<v Speaker 2>with conventions, Like I did not like going to the
<v Speaker 2>VidCon as.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I was going to ask you, did you go
<v Speaker 1>before you were signing? I mean, yeah, yeah.
<v Speaker 2>And now now I choose to exclusively be around this
<v Speaker 2>type of crowd because I love I love so much,
<v Speaker 2>I mean, both the fans and then behind the scenes.
<v Speaker 2>I get to meet other voice actors and hear about
<v Speaker 2>you know, parallel journeys that other people have had doing
<v Speaker 2>what I what I'm now doing and so and also
<v Speaker 2>because I'm so new, this is just such a welcoming profession.
<v Speaker 2>Everyone here, you know, it's been doing it longer than me,
<v Speaker 2>and they're just welcoming me with open arms, giving me
<v Speaker 2>tips and advice. And there's no sense of like hierarchy,
<v Speaker 2>you know, connecting with all kinds of voice actors at
<v Speaker 2>these conventions, and they're just all such lovely people to
<v Speaker 2>be around. You. You're with the fans all day, and
<v Speaker 2>then it's nice to just go behind the curtain and
<v Speaker 2>just decompress with someone who's also been around the fans
<v Speaker 2>all day, and you kind of connect in a different
<v Speaker 2>way for you know, for lunch, and then you go
<v Speaker 2>back out there and connect in a different way with
<v Speaker 2>with those people. So yeah, it's it's it's given me
<v Speaker 2>like a different, like a new sense of purpose with
<v Speaker 2>what I do.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And I already felt like I had a lot
<v Speaker 2>of purpose with what I did before this, but now
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, oh, here's I get to see up close
<v Speaker 2>the effect that the work has on people.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, well that's what I always say. We make
<v Speaker 1>our living in rooms with a few other people, right,
<v Speaker 1>no audiences per se unless you look in there and
<v Speaker 1>people are giggling after you do your line, and then
<v Speaker 1>you know, you just kind of do it. You hope it,
<v Speaker 1>hope it. Well, I'll just knock this down, you know,
<v Speaker 1>you hope it resonates with people. And then eventually when
<v Speaker 1>you get to a convention and then at that one
<v Speaker 1>time where you you know, and you said pull my
<v Speaker 1>finger and and you know, and it was like, okay,
<v Speaker 1>so that I got you. So you were you were
<v Speaker 1>paying attention, thank you.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And if it's any like sometimes I like to
<v Speaker 2>go to watch parties at people's houses because it's a
<v Speaker 2>good reminder of like, oh yeah, when people watch my stuff,
<v Speaker 2>this room full of laughing people, that's the energy it
<v Speaker 2>could bring to certain households. And I think that you're right.
<v Speaker 2>We do it quiet in a studio, and it's very
<v Speaker 2>almost deflating in a studio because there's a you can't
<v Speaker 2>they don't let you hear them laughing because you know
<v Speaker 2>that would ruin the mess up the track. But so
<v Speaker 2>so you're used to when you just say a joke,
<v Speaker 2>whether there's one person in the room or a whole
<v Speaker 2>group of people, you're used to hearing some form of
<v Speaker 2>responsive laughter. Yes, no, I'm doing doing the same thing.
<v Speaker 2>So when you don't hear that immediate laughter, it almost
<v Speaker 2>feels like, oh, I've bombed and uh. And I think
<v Speaker 2>even now that I know it doesn't mean that there's
<v Speaker 2>still this like inherent knee jerk reaction of like, oh
<v Speaker 2>they oh that's right, I can't hear.
<v Speaker 1>Them, especially if you're used to doing something in front
<v Speaker 1>of people. Yeah, it's an immediate response. That's that's one
<v Speaker 1>of the greatest things about theater or live live anything, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>is you get an immediate response.
<v Speaker 2>And you know, so many of our casts there in life,
<v Speaker 2>they're Broadway people, and so this is a way different.
<v Speaker 2>You know, if it's different for me, I'm I'm on
<v Speaker 2>camera but like to be, you know, going from Broadway
<v Speaker 2>to that. So I think it is a bit of
<v Speaker 2>a culture shock, at least initially. You know, being in
<v Speaker 2>that quiet, quiet room, you have to really be looking
<v Speaker 2>through the glass to make sure they're they're enjoying. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>but uh yeah, it's it's it's crazy because you don't
<v Speaker 2>think about you know, when I'm in that studio, I
<v Speaker 2>try to think about the rooms of people watching it,
<v Speaker 2>you know, the people at home, you know that are
<v Speaker 2>like I try and pretend they're right in front of
<v Speaker 2>me and I'm just doing it for them, and it
<v Speaker 2>is it is different. And also just I like to stand.
<v Speaker 2>I think standing ads you know, as long as I
<v Speaker 2>could stay on the mic, standing for me helps me
<v Speaker 2>do more things with my my diaph no, I agree.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, it's it's it has been a very very
<v Speaker 2>rewarding new variant of the work I was already doing,
<v Speaker 2>you know. I I, for instance, I'm now very cognizant
<v Speaker 2>of clothes that make noise.
<v Speaker 1>And oh yeah, that's so true.
<v Speaker 2>And I'm very cognizant of also just like my posture
<v Speaker 2>just where I'm at with you know, mics and equipment.
<v Speaker 1>Well plus it affects you if you're standing or sitting.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, you know, what's his name, Paul standing and
<v Speaker 1>kiss I think I remember he used to lay on
<v Speaker 1>the floor and they would drop a mic down at him.
<v Speaker 1>And I tried that to sing and and I tried
<v Speaker 1>doing that, and it's awful. He's out of his mind,
<v Speaker 1>you know, your diaphragms folding up, shot at all, loud
<v Speaker 1>or whatever, something about shouting, you know, And it was no,
<v Speaker 1>get up, it's get up off of there, mister.
<v Speaker 2>It's gook funny.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah yeah, yeah, walking laying on the floor, yeah, in
<v Speaker 1>his mouth.
<v Speaker 3>Wow.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>So that's so I have convention because I've only been
<v Speaker 2>in on the scene for a couple of years, not
<v Speaker 2>even have conventions changed significantly since COVID or well.
<v Speaker 1>I think so, because the people are dying to get
<v Speaker 1>out of the house. Yeah, you know, because you know
<v Speaker 1>it was you know, COVID was you know, I had
<v Speaker 1>it and I didn't even know I had it same
<v Speaker 1>So that's how that's how badly it affected me. So
<v Speaker 1>I thought it was much ado about nothing, and I
<v Speaker 1>was a little vocal about that, for better or worse.
<v Speaker 1>But you know, I think everybody was just oh, man,
<v Speaker 1>I can't go to a convention. I can't, you know,
<v Speaker 1>got to sit home, can't go to Disneyland? Kick? Can
<v Speaker 1>I go to the show?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>As long as you keep you know, you're in a
<v Speaker 1>scuba diving outfit. And uh, you know, it just got old.
<v Speaker 1>And I think when everybody said, okay, can we just
<v Speaker 1>quit pretending? Can we go back to work? Can we
<v Speaker 1>go to a convention? Can we go to Disneyland? Can
<v Speaker 1>we go to the park and swing on the swings? Yes? Okay, good?
<v Speaker 1>Boom the floodgates opened. Wow?
<v Speaker 2>And so when did you notice the cons release start
<v Speaker 2>picking back up? Because I joined after it was full fledged.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I don't know about a year. What would you
<v Speaker 1>say about a year ago, year and a half?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, probably like twenty twenty two, I'd say, okay, so
<v Speaker 3>I must have joined right when it was yeah opening.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think you're good. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Oh wow, okay, I yeah, I just uh And is
<v Speaker 2>it similar to what it was like before COVID or
<v Speaker 2>has has it been changed?
<v Speaker 1>Well? I think there's more people.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I think it's been become more popular since COVID.
<v Speaker 2>I also feel like, just generally, I feel like pop
<v Speaker 2>culture is inherently more of a part because like the
<v Speaker 2>you know, I don't know at least a lot of
<v Speaker 2>the people I know. You know, the younger you get,
<v Speaker 2>I mean the older you get. You know, someone in
<v Speaker 2>their thirties today having action figures is a lot more
<v Speaker 2>acceptable than you know, thirty years ago someone having action
<v Speaker 2>figures at this stage. I just if you look at Target,
<v Speaker 2>they now have a pop culture section. Oh yeah, so
<v Speaker 2>it's like, yeah, I think that, yes, everyone wants to
<v Speaker 2>get out of the house, but I feel like we're
<v Speaker 2>at a point now where like anyone who's itching and
<v Speaker 2>get out got out. I feel like a pop culture
<v Speaker 2>is really kind of on an upswing.
<v Speaker 3>Well, they figured out how to make it part of
<v Speaker 3>the capitalist machine, you know. I think that has a
<v Speaker 3>lot to do with it too, that they're figuring out
<v Speaker 3>how to monetize each and everything.
<v Speaker 2>You know, the money's there, people are spending lots of money.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. And I was just at the last convention we were at.
<v Speaker 3>I was talking to Miley Flanagan and they didn't even
<v Speaker 3>used to. They used to the promoters would just pay
<v Speaker 3>actors or voice actors or whoever to appear and then
<v Speaker 3>just sign like it wasn't charged per autograph.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that was like the the first one I did
<v Speaker 1>was that.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and so even recently, you know, that is another
<v Speaker 3>mode of commodification, you know, and it's you know, you
<v Speaker 3>see the people standing in line and no pictures unless
<v Speaker 3>you pay for it, you know, like, oh can I
<v Speaker 3>have a selfie? Well? Did you pay for it? You know,
<v Speaker 3>it's like right, so commodified.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, that's insane. You know what blew my mind
<v Speaker 2>was when I first started signing a lot of the
<v Speaker 2>people online go to every convention they can go to,
<v Speaker 2>and they're so in tuned with like, oh they know
<v Speaker 2>the CULD, they know the routine, and.
<v Speaker 1>I call it the con culture, the conic culture. Yeah. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>And so I'll have people just sort of line up
<v Speaker 2>and they'll some of them, some of them it's their
<v Speaker 2>first time, like, oh, I don't know, how do I
<v Speaker 2>do this? Do I pick? Some of them are like yes, this,
<v Speaker 2>make it out to this, make it out to this,
<v Speaker 2>I want too selfies on one video and they just
<v Speaker 2>and then they once they got their stuff.
<v Speaker 1>Boom, they're gone.
<v Speaker 2>And there's kind of something I respect about them.
<v Speaker 1>They they do what they want for sure.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, I do the people who come up, they'll they'll
<v Speaker 3>talk to Jim and be like do I pay you?
<v Speaker 3>Is like so precious. It's like, oh, it's like you're
<v Speaker 3>first time, right, you know. It's it's so precious because
<v Speaker 3>they're so shy and likes excited all at the same time.
<v Speaker 1>Very sweet.
<v Speaker 2>Usually, I at least from what I've seen, it's the
<v Speaker 2>smaller towns that usually have people like that, Like Vegas,
<v Speaker 2>I rarely meet people like that. But then like I
<v Speaker 2>was just in West Virginia and almost every person I
<v Speaker 2>met I was their first. Oh that's great person I
<v Speaker 2>met or the first. So it is a different energy
<v Speaker 2>and it is kind of I like them both, honestly.
<v Speaker 2>I like the people who know what they want and
<v Speaker 2>to get out. And there's some people that are just
<v Speaker 2>possibly you're the only celebrity there to meet and when
<v Speaker 2>I was, you know, and it's very sweet. It's very sweet. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>it comes from a very innocent place. It's it's weird.
<v Speaker 2>It's interesting seeing so many people in their most nervous
<v Speaker 2>state of mind. It's like you're just seeing people I
<v Speaker 2>don't know. You just get you start to get used
<v Speaker 2>to meeting nervous people.
<v Speaker 3>You get cariers.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, criers, and that could be an interesting Oh yeah,
<v Speaker 2>way to talk. By the way, this is the first
<v Speaker 2>ever podcast as WRE I get to talk about this
<v Speaker 2>stuff with something who knows what I'm talking about. Oh yeah, like, oh, well,
<v Speaker 2>I love I love unloading. I'm like, am I never
<v Speaker 2>unloaded about this?
<v Speaker 1>One's no one's ever asked. Yeah, well, believe me, you're
<v Speaker 1>in good company.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So criers, Yes, this is a cork.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, I can't. I mean, I'm sure you get criers,
<v Speaker 1>but like with me, I'll have criers and they all
<v Speaker 1>cry over Winning the Pooh. I love the fact that
<v Speaker 1>you get criers over Satan. I know, you know, Oh
<v Speaker 1>my god, Satan. Oh, I'm pretty sure my uncle he
<v Speaker 1>passed away last year. Pretty sure you know him, real
<v Speaker 1>ass wife. He's uh, you know, he's quite a turd socket.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know if you Lenny Lenny. He's from New York.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, yeah, I know.
<v Speaker 2>I know turd Socket from Winnie the Pooh.
<v Speaker 1>Well that was only Jim coming, so don't be alarmed.
<v Speaker 2>I I yeah, it's it's so so. I The way
<v Speaker 2>people connect with my characters is a little different. These
<v Speaker 2>are most of them are alternative or queer or people
<v Speaker 2>who don't feel like they fit in with a lot
<v Speaker 2>of their the people around them. And I think the
<v Speaker 2>work that I do, especially you know, as Blitz, I
<v Speaker 2>think there's something that they see in him, because Blitz
<v Speaker 2>is sort of I mean a lot of the characters
<v Speaker 2>on that show are are relatable to, you know, people
<v Speaker 2>in the queer community. And in a way that right,
<v Speaker 2>I know, I was really hoping for the Martha Stewart fans.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, but which, by the way, we have the
<v Speaker 2>same birthday.
<v Speaker 1>Oh get out, well, I have good news. You failed
<v Speaker 1>miserably in Martha's Stewart category. The other one you're doing great.
<v Speaker 2>Right, right right? But anyway, yeah, so the people come
<v Speaker 2>up to me. I mean people cry for different reasons.
<v Speaker 2>Sometimes people cry as just a physical reaction. They're not
<v Speaker 2>even that adamant about anything. They just can't help, but
<v Speaker 2>their nerves work them up into textrue. So there's a
<v Speaker 2>million of reasons why someone can cry, and some of them,
<v Speaker 2>you know, I will I have a hard time, you know,
<v Speaker 2>you know, cutting off my time with I have a
<v Speaker 2>really hard time with someone. But some of them, okay,
<v Speaker 2>so you have to understand. I think what people don't
<v Speaker 2>realize is that you're meeting human beings humans constantly. You're
<v Speaker 2>one person after the other the other, and they're all
<v Speaker 2>coming at you with ten out of ten energy. Whatever
<v Speaker 2>the energy is, if it's good, if it's bad, if
<v Speaker 2>it's silly, if it's whatever, it's a full force that energy. Right,
<v Speaker 2>So when when someone's crying, they're crying hard. When someone's laughing,
<v Speaker 2>they're laughing. Everything's so intense. Even the people who just
<v Speaker 2>shut down like that's sort of an intenseness to that
<v Speaker 2>where they just don't say anything. So for us to
<v Speaker 2>you know, it's it's as human beings, we inherently have
<v Speaker 2>to mirror the energy. Whether you're having dinner with one
<v Speaker 2>person or if you're in a room full of people,
<v Speaker 2>we kind of match energy as as just as yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that's species. So when they're at the table, we have
<v Speaker 2>to It is difficult to have to toggle your energy
<v Speaker 2>between all these different types.
<v Speaker 1>Of tens, a lot of frequency, a lot.
<v Speaker 2>Of different frequencies that you're tuning to. So so someone
<v Speaker 2>could just be crying and you've brought yourself to this
<v Speaker 2>very personal place with them, and the next person is screaming,
<v Speaker 2>and just so and you have and they're elated. You
<v Speaker 2>have to get yourself to be as elated as they are.
<v Speaker 2>And I'm not saying that one energy is better than
<v Speaker 2>the other. They're just all different and they're all a lot,
<v Speaker 2>and so it can be tiring as a just as
<v Speaker 2>a human being to do that for hours, and.
<v Speaker 1>It's an odd discipline. It's odd drain, but it's a
<v Speaker 1>bit of a drain because you don't want to. You
<v Speaker 1>don't want to, you know, ruin not be there for everyone.
<v Speaker 2>Right And so I'm never out there unless I can
<v Speaker 2>be a silly version of my normal self. I'm never
<v Speaker 2>my normal, normal self. I'm always like a little bit
<v Speaker 2>of a heightened version of myself just so they can,
<v Speaker 2>you know, just to make their day a little better.
<v Speaker 2>But if I can't put on that mask, if I
<v Speaker 2>have to, if I'm like to it, because sometimes I
<v Speaker 2>will get to a point where I'm just like I
<v Speaker 2>can't even muster like a smile right now, yes, Like
<v Speaker 2>I just your brain is just like throbbing, and you
<v Speaker 2>just need a second to just sit down and drink
<v Speaker 2>some water and just take a few deep breaths. Because
<v Speaker 2>it's just a lot of people and I do my
<v Speaker 2>best to match everyone, but it is tough. Yeah, and
<v Speaker 2>so and again you don't want the because the one
<v Speaker 2>person you do let yourself down with a little bit,
<v Speaker 2>they're gonna go, oh, like, what's he's in a bad mood.
<v Speaker 2>It's like no, no, no, no, I've just been doing
<v Speaker 2>this for hours. One time, I had food poisoning and
<v Speaker 2>I was like trying to I was going to the
<v Speaker 2>bathroom to like throw up and then come back, and
<v Speaker 2>I was just not feeling great. And there were people
<v Speaker 2>who I remember, people who were not knowing to move along,
<v Speaker 2>people who were staying for like like well past their
<v Speaker 2>time and they're crying and I can't tell them to
<v Speaker 2>move along. But I'm also dealing with like not wanting
<v Speaker 2>to throw up. So it was it was. There are
<v Speaker 2>times where I'm yeah, it does push me and I
<v Speaker 2>have to go take a break and yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>People say like, well, you're just signing, why didn't you
<v Speaker 2>take it? It's like no, it is like it's like
<v Speaker 2>mental yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Socially yeah, it's not like your hands tired.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's not my hands tired. And my back's fine.
<v Speaker 2>Physically I'm fine. It's just all it's like my heart
<v Speaker 2>and my head are like both yobby.
<v Speaker 1>Right, but and and plus you know, you get well,
<v Speaker 1>you know, I get the stories about things that I
<v Speaker 1>was home and I just lost my grandma, and and
<v Speaker 1>then Pooh came on, and then I remembered that we
<v Speaker 1>used to sit no, I used to sit on our
<v Speaker 1>lab and we want and that where run came on,
<v Speaker 1>and it was reminded me of my grandma. So thank you.
<v Speaker 1>And I went, oh, oh, you're welcome. You know, I
<v Speaker 1>didn't even I didn't okay, yep, could not be more welcome.
<v Speaker 1>I'm very grateful that you told me that. Yeah, you know,
<v Speaker 1>so you get those and it makes it all and.
<v Speaker 2>The most better. I'm learning that, like the more, the
<v Speaker 2>most that I can do in those moments is be
<v Speaker 2>as present with them as possible. Yeah, and if I
<v Speaker 2>can at least just do that. Some people it's a
<v Speaker 2>little harder to be more present with than others. Some
<v Speaker 2>some people are so elated to where their logic I can't.
<v Speaker 2>I'm having trouble keeping up with their story because it's
<v Speaker 2>going here. But I yes, I'm like I if I
<v Speaker 2>you know, and I'll ask Them'm like I'm your mom said,
<v Speaker 2>you know, but yeah, but yeah, yeah, I just try
<v Speaker 2>and be present with them. I don't I don't want
<v Speaker 2>anyone to ever feel like I was looking through them,
<v Speaker 2>and you know, and and yeah, it's it's I do
<v Speaker 2>feel bad when people come up and they say, oh,
<v Speaker 2>remember me from from Tampa or from this other convention. Oh,
<v Speaker 2>I don't remember you.
<v Speaker 1>You were the guy on the T shirt? Was that you?
<v Speaker 1>I do you have a baseball hat?
<v Speaker 3>On?
<v Speaker 2>Richard taught me, And I'm he's probably gonna hate me
<v Speaker 2>for spilling the secret, but let's take that.
<v Speaker 1>He said.
<v Speaker 2>He said, it's he always says, it's nice to see you.
<v Speaker 2>That's what it is, nice to see you, because it
<v Speaker 2>could be whither it could be nice to meet you,
<v Speaker 2>or it could be if I see you again, it's
<v Speaker 2>it sounds familiar. So I've always leaned on nice to
<v Speaker 2>see you. Oh it's great to see you, because it
<v Speaker 2>could I could be meeting you for.
<v Speaker 1>The first time. And it's right. Yeah, that's true.
<v Speaker 2>It's it. That's it. I have very vanilla, very vanilla,
<v Speaker 2>and it lets them do what they want with it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I have interpretation exactly.
<v Speaker 2>I've said in the past, nice to meet you to
<v Speaker 2>many people, and they go, we met before.
<v Speaker 1>Actually I'm like, oh, yeah, that's true. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>So I'm like like, yep, yep, I was. I was
<v Speaker 2>testing you. Yeah, I'm glad you remember.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that reminds me of a story. I'm gonna tell
<v Speaker 3>a story really quick because I love this story. I
<v Speaker 3>was at a friend's father's memorial service a couple of
<v Speaker 3>years ago, and there was a bunch of uh, like,
<v Speaker 3>you know, my peers from high school. We all went
<v Speaker 3>to high school together. We all knew. This guy's name
<v Speaker 3>was Papa Joe, and he like had the house that
<v Speaker 3>everybody partied at, you know, oh boy. And we're standing
<v Speaker 3>around in a circle and it was like I went
<v Speaker 3>to like a pretty small high school, Like there was
<v Speaker 3>only one hundred kids in my graduating class. Oh wow,
<v Speaker 3>you know, so like everybody knew everybody. And we're sitting there,
<v Speaker 3>we're standing there sharing some stories and stuff, and this
<v Speaker 3>girl comes up and she had had a lot of
<v Speaker 3>work done since high school, a lot of work on
<v Speaker 3>her feet, which, yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Your high school wasn't that long ago. Yeah, she was
<v Speaker 1>an overachiever.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, And she comes up and one of my friends goes, oh, hi,
<v Speaker 3>I'm Greg, nice to meet you, and she looks at
<v Speaker 3>him she's like Greg, it's Amy, like, oh, like we
<v Speaker 3>definitely know each other. And he was like, oh my god,
<v Speaker 3>I am so sorry, Like I didn't recognize you student class.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, wow, that's well.
<v Speaker 3>I probably should have changed the names.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that name and he's real name, I mean, gladys Is.
<v Speaker 1>And then he said, good to see your face cleared up,
<v Speaker 1>you know, because that's nice, and give him a compliment.
<v Speaker 1>Your face cleared up, you know, that's yeah, yeah, I
<v Speaker 1>didn't recognize you.
<v Speaker 3>All right, we have we have this game that we
<v Speaker 3>played on this show. So I'm going to explain it
<v Speaker 3>right this time.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, here we go.
<v Speaker 3>Jim will do one of his iconic voices whole say
<v Speaker 3>a line like say oh bother or you know, one
<v Speaker 3>of his character voices, and then you'll imitate that same
<v Speaker 3>line with one of your characters. Okay, and then we'll
<v Speaker 3>go back and forth. All right, are you game?
<v Speaker 1>I like that?
<v Speaker 3>Alright?
<v Speaker 2>I was hoping for something like this.
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's see, how about I haven't done Hondo
<v Speaker 1>in a while. Yeah, Honduo Naka. He's my guy from
<v Speaker 1>Star Wars Clone Wars Rebels and oh okay and uh okay,
<v Speaker 1>so he's a he's a space pirate space from from
<v Speaker 1>a galaxy far far away to get that. Yeah, throwing
<v Speaker 1>it out there and let's see. Okay he is he's
<v Speaker 1>a bit of a comment. Oh, so here we go.
<v Speaker 2>Okay.
<v Speaker 1>Oh the stories I could tell, so many of them true?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, just blitz. Yeah, Oh the stories I could tell
<v Speaker 2>and so many of them true.
<v Speaker 1>That's pretty good.
<v Speaker 3>I love that. I'm a big fan of that.
<v Speaker 1>That was good. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Show Okay, it's my turn.
<v Speaker 1>You sound just like him? Okay, go ahead, there you go.
<v Speaker 2>See you sound just like him?
<v Speaker 1>No, no, no, no, that was me being a fan.
<v Speaker 2>Oh say, oh, I just say any line.
<v Speaker 1>No you say no, you're You're on your own now.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, and any line.
<v Speaker 2>All right, let's go lick some ass. I really had
<v Speaker 2>to think of that one.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, can can it be tazz?
<v Speaker 2>Okay?
<v Speaker 1>Ass okay, I mean no questions.
<v Speaker 3>Who would you say is your most vulgar character? If any,
<v Speaker 3>it's got to be that guy from Grand Theft Auto? Right?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, well who are you and Grand Theft? I
<v Speaker 1>sell arm? I sell arms?
<v Speaker 3>He was like the arms dealer. What's the name of
<v Speaker 3>that store?
<v Speaker 1>This is this the five? Yeah, it's where you go. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>it's where you go to buy ammunition to ammunation.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, ammunation ammunition.
<v Speaker 2>Oh my god, I've killed you so many times, really
<v Speaker 2>thinking that I could get the yea. But you're hard
<v Speaker 2>to kill because you can't bring a gun in the store.
<v Speaker 2>So you know what I do is I p I
<v Speaker 2>prop the door open. You can prop the door open
<v Speaker 2>with an objective park a car, park a bike or something.
<v Speaker 2>You prop the door open and then you just stand
<v Speaker 2>outside and then you run in and steal all the Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>but it's hard. It's hard because your your gun. You
<v Speaker 2>have to be fully outside the door and find a
<v Speaker 2>way to keep the door open. You can kind of
<v Speaker 2>prop it open yourself, but it's hard to do anyway.
<v Speaker 1>I'm going to take your word on that one.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, wow, wow. That is They should have made
<v Speaker 2>him look like you.
<v Speaker 1>Kids, don't try this at home.
<v Speaker 2>I wouldn't have I wouldn't have killed him if he
<v Speaker 2>looked like you.
<v Speaker 1>You would have just thrown a grenade.
<v Speaker 2>I would have just the grenade.
<v Speaker 1>We don't feel those That's right.
<v Speaker 3>Let's do let's do one more.
<v Speaker 2>Let's do uh and I misunderstood the assignment, by the way. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>So so it's fine, okay, okay, cool, Yeah, we got it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think who should have?
<v Speaker 3>Who's another character? You got to do? Classic Pooh? I
<v Speaker 3>know we keep doing Pooh. Leave in the comments. By
<v Speaker 3>the way, who think of some voices for these voice
<v Speaker 3>swap games for Jim to do? Because we were kind
<v Speaker 3>of in a in a pattern. Now, yes, so drop
<v Speaker 3>a comment of what voices you want to hear? But
<v Speaker 3>how about we do Pooh and Katie killed Joy?
<v Speaker 1>Okay, okay, Pooh and Katie kill Joy. Okay, let's see.
<v Speaker 1>Would you please pass loney, I'm.
<v Speaker 2>Gonna need you to pass that. Honey, I'm gonna need you.
<v Speaker 3>And then let's just do vice versa.
<v Speaker 2>Breaking the news and breaking those bus sizes.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, geez, I don't know who should respond to breaking
<v Speaker 1>the news and breaking those bus passes see see Disney
<v Speaker 1>see not bad? Right? How am I doing?
<v Speaker 2>That's pretty sure they're applauding your improv skills.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah they are, And I'm applauding the fact that you
<v Speaker 1>didn't make me cuss too badly. Hey, I'm surprised, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>restraint is.
<v Speaker 2>I'm surprised that the universe allowed us to be like
<v Speaker 2>in this proximity for.
<v Speaker 1>This all life is good, ladies and gentlemen, can we
<v Speaker 1>hear it?
<v Speaker 3>Yes? Yes, Do you have anything coming up that you
<v Speaker 3>want to plug, anything like that?
<v Speaker 1>Anything?
<v Speaker 2>I don't think so, I just uh, oh, I'm doing
<v Speaker 2>a show by now. I think all of the episodes
<v Speaker 2>are streaming. It's a show called Class Acts. It's kind
<v Speaker 2>of like, uh, the Office meets a hell of a Boss.
<v Speaker 2>It's written by the same people and so it'll be
<v Speaker 2>properly demented, properly demented. It's a show about an acting
<v Speaker 2>class in l A and I play an acting teacher.
<v Speaker 1>Oh that's great.
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, it's it's a lot of fun. It's that's
<v Speaker 2>a great idea. Yeah yeah, I mean it's a very
<v Speaker 2>flexible show. You can have a lot of different shenanigans.
<v Speaker 2>And I've taken a Bajillian acting classes, so I felt
<v Speaker 2>like I knew that the source material.
<v Speaker 1>Well, oh that's great. That's a great idea.
<v Speaker 3>That's a great past.
<v Speaker 2>Class Acts and it's eight episodes.
<v Speaker 3>A right, break a lip, just YouTube YouTube.
<v Speaker 1>Just yeah, break a lip, brother, Thank you very much.
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's hear it, ladies and gentlemen, ran and writer.
<v Speaker 1>Let the crowd went mild right, that's what I always say,
<v Speaker 1>but that was for me, not you.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, all right, well, thank you so much for being here.
<v Speaker 3>Thank you, and thank you guys all for watching. That
<v Speaker 3>was another episode of Tuned In with Jim Cummings. Don't
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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that was fun, fun,